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Building Minecraft Server Modifications

By : Cody M. Sommer
Book Image

Building Minecraft Server Modifications

By: Cody M. Sommer

Overview of this book

If you have ever played Minecraft on a public server then the chances are that the server was powered by Bukkit. Bukkit plugins allow a server to be modified in more ways than you can imagine. Learning to program your own server mods will allow you to customize the game to your own liking. Building Minecraft Server Modifications is a complete guide that walks you through the creation of Minecraft server mods. From setting up a server, to testing your newly made plugins, this book teaches you everything you need to know. With the help of this book you can start practising for a career in software development or simply create something awesome to play with your friends. This book walks you through installing your own Minecraft server for you and your friends. Once your server is running, it will aid you in modifying the game by programming Bukkit plugins. You will learn how to program simple plugin features such as player commands and permissions. You will also learn more complex features including listening for events, creating a configurable plugin, and utilizing the Bukkit scheduler. All of this will be accomplished while writing your own server mods. You will become familiar with the most important aspects of the Bukkit API. Additional API features will become a breeze to learn after tackling these more complicated tasks.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Minecraft Server Modifications
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding the Java documentation


In case you are new to reading API documentation, let's look at a method that is included in the World class to see what information it provides us. Click on the link to view the createExplosion(Location loc, float power, booleansetFire) method. You will be brought to the method description similar to the one shown in the following screenshot:

The screenshot explains each parameter and the return value for the method. This method requires that we pass three parameters to it, explained as follows:

  • Where the explosion should take place

  • How powerful the explosion should be

  • Whether the explosion should cause surrounding blocks to ignite in flames

If the returned value is void then the method will not send any information back to us. In this example, the method returns a boolean value. On reading the documentation we learn that the returned value is whether or not the explosion actually occurred. If another plugin prevented the explosion from happening then the...